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Click here to subscribe1945 COPENHAGEN XI V ENGLAND XI Match played 26/9/1945 at Idraetsparkens Stadion, Copenhagen, Denmark. Scarce official programme for the game played to celebrate the 75th birthday of King Christian X of Denmark. Also included is a signed hand written letter by J.A..Colver who attended the game as a guest in the press box and reported for the Sheffield ''Green-un'' Slight horizontal crease and very slightly marked. Generally good
1950 FIFA WORLD CUP SPAIN v USA / ENGLAND v CHILE. Issue of the Spanish weekly football magazine ''MARCA'' dated 27/6/1950 which includes extensive coverage of the five opening matches of the tournament played on 24-25/7/1950 across Brazil with extensive coverage of the Spain v USA match but also covers England v Chile, Brazil v Mexico, Yugoslavia v Switzerland & Sweden v Italy. This issue also previews the Spain v England game and also includes history of the previous FIFA World Cup's 1930-1938. The front cover includes pictures of the Spain XI from opening match. Good
1950 FIFA WORLD CUP SPAIN v ENGLAND Match played 2/7/1950 at Estadio Maracana, Rio de Janeiro. Issue of the Spanish weekly football magazine ''MARCA'' dated 3/7/1950 which includes extensive coverage of the game including many pictures, reports and team line-ups over various pages. This issue also covers many other games played at the 1950 World Cup up to 2/7/1950 with Brazil, Chile, Sweden, Switzerland & Uruguay games all covered. There are also some further newspaper scraps included from another magazine with further photos of the Spain v England match. Good
1963 ECWC SK SLOVAN BRATISLAVA V TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR Match played 5/3/1963 at Tehelne Pole Stadion, Bratislava. Rare 4-page issue ''Pravda'' published in Bratislava on the day of the game, dated 5/3/1963. Includes match previews, team line-ups and photo of the Spurs squad training in Bratislava ahead of the game etc. Generally good
Quantity of small scale die cast minature models comprising of boxed and carded issues. metal minature models foden staem lorry on carded blister pack, 2 old fashioned horse and carriage models carded blister pack, Includes 14 Miniature hand painted Antimony models in various design boxes, one has both end flaps detached but present. Also a trade box of 12 assorted carded blister packed models, that were given free with purchase of a jar of instant coffee, the die cast models were made in Japan all contained in a plain white trade box with applied label, 4 loose models including a horse drawn fire engine. Other items include a Salco railway porters trolley in white card box, Salco mini snap cards, and a small box containing assorted coloured marbles, and an unusual "Jacks" game made by Benbros in bag with header card. boxes are good with some wear, contents VGC - MINT. £80 - £120
Ian Glen signed 12x8 Game of Thrones colour photo. Iain Alan Sutherland Glen (born 24 June 1961) is a Scottish actor. Glen is best known for his roles as Dr. Alexander Isaacs/Tyrant in three films of the Resident Evil film series (2004-2016) and as Ser Jorah Mormont in the HBO fantasy television series Game of Thrones (2011-2019). Other notable roles include John Hanning Speke in Mountains of the Moon (1990), Larry Winters in Silent Scream (1990) for which he won the Silver Bear for Best Actor from the Berlin International Film Festival, Manfred Powell in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), Brother John in Song for a Raggy Boy (2003), the title role in Jack Taylor (2010-2016), Sir Richard Carlisle in Downton Abbey (2011), James Willett in Eye in the Sky (2015), and Bruce Wayne in Titans (2019-present). Good condition Est.
Diana Rigg signed 10x8 colour photo pictured as Tracy in the James Bond classic On Her Majestys Secret Service. Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg DBE (20 July 1938 - 10 September 2020) was an English actress of stage and screen. Her roles include Emma Peel in the TV series The Avengers (1965-1968); Countess Teresa di Vicenzo, wife of James Bond, in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969); Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones (2013-2017); and the title role in Medea in the West End in 1993 followed by Broadway a year later. Good condition Est.
Diana Rigg signed 10x8 colour photo. Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg DBE (20 July 1938 - 10 September 2020) was an English actress of stage and screen. Her roles include Emma Peel in the TV series The Avengers (1965-1968); Countess Teresa di Vicenzo, wife of James Bond, in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969); Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones (2013-2017); and the title role in Medea in the West End in 1993 followed by Broadway a year later. Good condition Est.
Peter Vaughan signed Porridge 10x8 colour photo. Peter Vaughan (born Peter Ewart Ohm; 4 April 1923 - 6 December 2016) was an English character actor known for many supporting roles in British film and television productions. He also acted extensively on the stage. He is perhaps best known for his role as Grouty in the sitcom Porridge and its 1979 film adaptation. Other parts included a recurring role alongside Robert Lindsay in the sitcom Citizen Smith, Tom Hedden in Straw Dogs, Winston the Ogre in Time Bandits, Tom Franklin in Chancer and Mr. Stevens, Sr. in The Remains of the Day. His final role was as Maester Aemon in HBO's Game of Thrones (2011-2015). Good condition Est.
Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Starter Deck 2008 Sealed Display. This lot contains one sealed display of the 2008 5D's Starter deck, contains ten decks in total. This was the deck that introduced synchro summoning to the game of Yu-Gi-Oh! These are 1st edition decks, item still contains the original Konami seal.
JULIA MINGUILLÓN (Lugo, 1907 - Madrid, 1965).Untitled.Oil on canvas.Signed in the lower left corner.Size: 70 x 50 cm; 84 x 63 cm (frame).Minguillón's work achieved great fame, being his scenes of infants the most popular ones. For this reason this piece stands out for the singularity of the subject matter in which two women can be seen; one fully dressed facing the viewer and the other with her back to the viewer naked. We only see the face of one of the protagonists, in such a way that the author suggests a game of identity that does not speak of specific characters, but rather alludes to women and their duality in post-war Spanish society, marked by strong masculine values.Julia Minguillón began her artistic training at the age of eleven with the painter Castro Cires in Valladolid. She later completed her studies in Madrid, first at the School of Arts and Crafts and later at the San Fernando School of Fine Arts, finally graduating in 1932 as a teacher of drawing and painting. During these years of apprenticeship she was taught by Manuel Benedito, Cecilio Pla, Joaquín Valverde, Ignacio Pinazo and Eduardo Chicharro. Minguillón developed a personal style halfway between postmodernism and naturalism, and painted both landscapes and genre scenes, the latter brimming with a naive lyricism full of sensitivity that would mark later Galician painting. This can be seen in this scene: a circus troupe resting in the middle of a wooded landscape. He became known through the National Exhibitions of Fine Arts, and in 1941 he was awarded a gold medal for "Escuela de Doloriñas" (Museo del Prado, on deposit at the Provincial Museum of Lugo). This work perfectly exemplifies Minguillón's style which, according to M.V. Carballo-Calero, is characterised by a tendency towards primitivism, which generally led him to paint on panel rather than on canvas, and by a schematic style with post-Cubist touches in its composition. This painter also took part in the most important international competitions, as well as in various group exhibitions. In 1948 she was awarded the Grand Prize for Fine Arts, and a year later she moved to Galicia, where she was appointed a corresponding member of the Galician Royal Academy. After a trip to America, in 1961 she settled permanently in Madrid, where she died four years later. She is currently mainly represented in the Provincial Museum of Lugo, although her works also form part of other collections such as the Nova Caixa Galicia, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Madrid and numerous museums in Galicia, the rest of Spain and abroad.
Zöhl, Werner (1926 Stendal - 2012 Fischerhude)"Mädchen im Herbst". Öl oder Acryl auf Leinwand, 1974. Unten rechts monogrammiert "Zö" und datiert. Rückseitig nochmals signiert und datiert sowie auf dem Keilrahmen betitelt und ausführlich bezeichnet. In schmaler schwarzer Künstlerleiste gerahmt. 52 x 42 cm. Sensibles Spiel aus Formen und Konturen mit illusionistischem Effekt. Girl in Autumn. Oil or acrylics on canvas, 1974. Monogrammed and dated bottom right. Backside with signature, date and title. In thin black framing. Sensible game of forms and outlines with illusionist effects.
Köselitz, Rudolf (1861 Annaberg - 1949 Altfreimann b. München)Die Schachpartie. Gouache auf Papier, wohl um 1900. Unten links signiert. Hinter Glas in goldgefasstem Schmuckrahmen. 35 x 40 cm (Ra). Leicht karikatureske Interieurszene eines Schachspiels zweier Herren in beidermeierlichem Ambiente. The game of chess. Watercolour on paper, pres. around 1900. Signed bottom left. Framed behind glass. Humoresque scene of two elderly Gentlemen playing the board game.
A quantity of vintage games, including an early 20th century "Parlour Tennis" game, in box, poker chips, a leather bridge box with silver mounts (damaged), playing cards, an RSPCA charity collection box, a green tin bagatelle board, a bone chess set and other items The bone chess set is complete however there are numerous damages and losses to the red stained set
A crocodile skin travel case and related ephemera with Russian Imperial provenance: the case by John Bagshaw & Sons, Liverpool, inscribed with crowned initials E.G., the interior with divided compartments, 29 x 26cm; together with a plaster cast of the Russian Imperial crown by Collingwood; a shaped rectangular silver box, Birmingham 1907, maker H.Matthews; and a silver christening mug inscribed 'To Nicolai from his godfather Prince Dimitri of Russia 7.2.69', Birmingham 1968, maker S.J.R. [4]. * Provenance Gwyneth Tighe, Princess Elizabeth Galitzine [b.1933] and thence by family descent. *Biography Gwyneth Tighe of Ballina Park, County Wicklow was a T.V. game show hostess in the 1960s. On marrying her third husband, Prince Yuri Galitzine, she styled herself Princess Elizabeth Galitzine. They had a son, Nikolai [see christening cup inscribed 'To Nikolai from his godfather Prince Dimitri of Russia']. During the war, Prince Yuri served as an intelligence officer [Captain] and discovered and reported on the concentration camp at Natzweiller in Alsace Lorraine. After the war, he became a public relations consultant in London [Galitzine,Chant, Russell]. Collingwood of London was one of his Public Relations accounts, hence the plaster cast of the Russian Imperial crown.
Multi-Signed Book Abba The Name Of The Game Hardback Book 1995 First Edition Multi-Signed by Andrew Oldham, Tony Calder and Colin Irwin on the Fifth page published by Sidgwick and Jackson some ageing good condition. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Cigarette Cards 1 Full Set of 50 plus 3 Part Sets Full Set is Military Uniforms of the British Empire overseas John Player and Sons, Part Sets are Coronation Series Ceremonial Dress 2 missing, Motor Cars 40 mixed, The Nose Game 20 mixed, good condition. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £9.99
13 x Vintage Football / Sports Magazines Includes AS Monaco v Liverpool 2004, Jimmy Frizzell Testimonial 1982, The Tommy Tynan Benefit Game Plymouth Argyle v Aston Villa 1991, Tommy Lawton Testimonial Match Everton v Great Britain XI 1972, Liverpool v Manchester United (Charity Shield) 1977, Liverpool v R.S.C. Anderlecht 1980, Brian Labone Testimonial Match Everton v Liverpool 1973, Liverpool v Nottingham Forest (Replay League Cup Final) 1978, Liverpool v Everton (F.A. Cup Semi-Final) (2 copies) 1977, Liverpool F.A. Cup Finalists 1971, Liverpool v Manchester United (F.A. Cup Semi-Final Replay) 1979, Premier League Superteams Liverpool 1995, good condition. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Bower-Birds Their Displays and Breeding Cycles by A.J. Marshall 1954. Avian Biology edited Farner & King volume 1. New Naturalist volumes to include British Tits by Perrins 1979, Finches by Ian Newton 1972, British Thrushes and Woodland Birds by Eric Simms 1978 & 1971, The Redstart by Buxton 1950, British Game by Vesey-Fitzgerald 1946 - most in dust-wrappers. Darwins Finches. Ivory-Billed Woodpecker by Tanner. Studies of the Song Sparrow in 2 volumes. Life of The Rook 1934. Ibis Journal for 1966 and books on The Cuckoo etc (31)
Two Copper and Brass Powder Flasksconsisting copper body with lower shell design panel to both sides. Brass top with exposed spring. Adjustable nozzle marked "Dixon & Sons". Together with copper body with game bird and shell design to both sides. Brass top with exposed spring (broken). Adjustable nozzle. Some dents to both flasks. 2 items. PAYMENT BY BANK TRANSFER ONLY
Late 18th Century Double Barrel Flintlock Shotgun by "Clarke"26 inch, 20 bore, side by side browned Damascus barrels. Top flat marked "Clarke". Breech plug with gilt inlaid lines. Lock plates with leaf line engraving and maker "Clarke". Elegant swept semi ring flint cocks with floral engravings. Waterproof pan, frizzen, and roller ball spring. Polished half stock woodwork with checkered wrist. The left side with raised cheek piece. Steel butt plate with long tang, scroll trigger guard with pineapple end and ramrod pipe. All with floral and game engraving. Two plain steel, under barrel ramrod pipes. White metal escutcheon and oval barrel key plates. Wooden ramrod with steel end cap. PAYMENT BY BANK TRANSFER ONLY
Taps Selected Poems Of The Great War 1st Edition Complied by Theodore Roosevelt JR & Grantland Rice published by Doubleday, Dorian & Co 1932, Edward Newton, This Book-Collecting Game, with illustrations, Boston Little, Brown and Company 1928, Alfred Lord Tennyson "The Death Of Cenone Akbars Dream" 1st Edition published by Macmillan & Co 1892 with a green hard back and gilt writing to the spine, A. C. Bradley "Oxford Lectures On Poetry" published by Macmillan & Co Ltd 1909 leather spine with gilt writing and 821 inscribed to the spine, Boni Lloyd Battaglia "The Fireside Book Of Favorite American Songs" published by Simon & Schuster 1952, Mary Cable "American Manners & Morals" with dust jacket published by American Heritage New York 1969, Mary & Vincent Price "A Treasury Of Great Recipes" 1st Edition and 1st printing published by Ampersand Press Inc 1965, Elijah Petty "Journey To Pleasant Hill" Signed First Edition published by the University Of Texas 1982 (8)
DOYLE ARTHUR CONAN: (1859-1930) Scottish author, creator of Sherlock Holmes. A small 8vo ruled page removed from a notebook bearing Doyle's holograph scores from a game of billiards, n.p., November - December n.y. The list of various scores, completed in ink and pencil, includes three for Doyle himself, signing with his initials ('ACD') in the left column alongside scores of 60, 52 and 44. The other initials, including P.S.L. and various scores also appear on the page. VG
‘A disease is definitely being healed here’EINSTEIN ALBERT: (1879-1955) German-born theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1921. T.L.S., A. Einstein, one page, 4to, Pasadena, California, to Mark Carter, Chairman of the ORT (Organisation for Rehabilitation through Training) in Los Angeles, on the printed stationery of the Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics at the California Institute of Technology. Einstein states that the efforts of the ORT Society for the social recovery of Eastern Jewry 'are of great importance for the entire Jewish people' and continues 'A disease is definitely being healed here, which has brought distress to our people for centuries. I sincerely wish your endeavours success and energetic help from the local people', further remarking 'I myself attended an unforgettable performance of the “Dybuk” by the “Habimah” and I am convinced that the high artistic level of the game of the “Habimah” will also cause enthusiasm here'. A letter of good content. Some very light, extremely minor staining to the edges, caused by the minor remnants of former mounting to the verso, G The Organisation for Rehabilitation through Training (ORT) is a global education network driven by Jewish values. Founded in Saint Petersburg in 1880 to provide professional and vocational training for young Jews it has since developed to promote education and training in communities worldwide and its activities throughout its history have spanned more than 100 countries and five continents. The Habima Theatre has been officially considered the national theatre of Israel since 1958 and is one of the first Hebrew language theatres, originally founded in Russia in 1912. Encountering difficulties under the Soviet government and authorities, the theatre left the Soviet Union in 1926 to tour abroad, including in the United States, where some of the actors chose to stay the following year. Other members of the company took the theatre to Mandate Palestine in 1928 and the company finally settled in Palestine in 1931, the same year as the present letter. In 1945 it built a theatre in Tel Aviv. The Dybbuk (or Between Two Worlds) is a play by Shloyme Ansky, authored between 1913-16 and originally written in Russian and later translated into Yiddish by Ansky himself. A Hebrew version was prepared by Hayim Nahman Bialik and staged in Moscow at Habima Theatre in 1922. The play became a canonical work of both Hebrew and Yiddish theatre, being further translated and performed around the world.
‘Winston Churchill is strongly anti-Italian, and is all for going to war with Mussolini’[MUSSOLINI BENITO]: (1883-1945) Italian Fascist Dictator of World War II. SNOWDEN PHILIP (1864-1937) 1st Viscount Snowden. British politician who served as the Labour Party's first Chancellor of the Exchequer 1924, 1929-31. An interesting T.L.S., Snowden, three pages, small 4to, Tilford, Farnham, 21st August 1935, to the Rt. Hon. G. N. Barnes ('My Dear George'). Snowden thanks his correspondent for their letter and adds that he is in complete agreement with the contents, continuing 'It is a devil of a situation, and I am not at clear what can be done. Only one thing is certain, and that is that Mussolini is determined on his military adventure, and nothing will stop him. The powers have been wasting time in fruitless talk which they knew would make no impression on Mussolini. All this has played his game. Our prohibition of the export of arms to Abyssinia has been outrageous, and if it were lifted now I am afraid it is too late to help Abyssinia. The British Cabinet is to meet this week, and I do not know if they will take any decisive action. I do hear that there is a party in the Cabinet who are for enforcing sanctions. Winston Churchill is strongly anti-Italian, and is all for going to war with Mussolini. I suppose that the stumbling block in the way of strong action by Britain is our alliance with France. This has been the curse of our foreign policy from before the War…..I saw Lloyd George yesterday and he told me that Sam Hoare has asked him to come and see him. This rather looks as if the Government were anxious to get united support for any drastic action they may have to take…..One thing only seems evident and that is that [the] League is going to burst up. I see that Lansbury has written to the Pope asking him to call a world Conference to be held on the Hill of Cavalry where the nations will agree to a general sharing out of the surface of the earth!' and concluding his letter by discussing Lloyd George and the Trade Unionists and also remarking 'I do not think that the Labour Party is making any headway in the country, and I should be surprised if they poll their 1929 vote at the next Election'. Together with a second T.L.S., Snowden, two pages, small 4to, Tilford, Farnham, 15th April 1936, to George [Barnes]. Snowden states that he is glad to have received his correspondent's letter and writes 'Like you I am dismayed about the international situation. I see no likelihood of a way out of the Abyssinian situation which will not be a victory for Italy at the expense of the League of Nations. For the time being the League is destroyed. Mussolini has successfully defied the League. The other Powers have played a cowardly game all through. They have been afraid to tackle Musso. France has been in league with him all the time. The next few days will bring matters to a head……If there were another Government possible I think Baldwin would have to go'. Two letters of very good content. Some light dust staining and minor age wear, G to about VG, 2 George Barnes (1859-1940) British politician, Leader of the Labour Party 1910-11. Snowden's letters are written at the height of the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, a war of aggression fought between Italy and Ethiopia from October 1935 to February 1937. It is seen as an example of the expansionist policy that characterised the Axis powers and the ineffectiveness of the League of Nations before the outbreak of World War II.
[CONSTITUTION OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY]: ADENAUER KONRAD (1876-1967) German statesman who served as the first Chancellor of West Germany (officially the Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany) from 1949-63. An historically important group of printed documents concerning the introduction of the West German constitution following the end of World War II, and other related items, two signed by Adenauer, all relating to the Grundgesetz fur die Bundesrepublik Deutschland ('Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany', i.e. the West German Constitution), comprising -(i) printed 4to copy of the Entwurf des Grundgesetzes ('Draft of the Basic Law') in the version of the second reading of the Parliamentary Council, published by the Bonn University printers as Parliamentary Council paper number 883, 8th May 1949, comprising 38 pages, in German, and consisting of 146 numbered articles forming the proposed West German Constitution, containing a series of pencil corrections (most in German, although, curiously, a few in English too) to the margins, in the hand of Rudolf Nadolny, alongside articles 21, 22, 37, 38, 54, 82, 132, 136, 137 and 144.(ii) printed 4to copy of the Grundgesetz fur die Bundesrepublik Deutschland ('Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany') as passed by the Parliamentary Council in Bonn, 8th May 1949, published by the Bonn University printers, comprising 38 pages, in German, and consisting of 146 numbered articles forming the definitive West German Constitution and reflecting the amendments as noted in the preceding draft copy, the introduction stating, in part, 'Aware of their responsibility before God and mankind, inspired by the will to maintain their national and state unity and to serve world peace as an equal member in a united Europe, the German people in the states of Baden, Bavaria, Bremen, Hamburg, Hesse, Nieder-Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Schleswig-Holstein, Wurttemberg-Baden and Wurttemberg-Hohenzollern, to give state life a new order for a transitional period, passed this Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany by virtue of its constituent power….'.(iii) printed 4to copy of the first edition of the Federal Law Gazette, issued in Bonn, 23rd May 1949, published by the Bonn University printers, comprising 20 pages, in German, and presenting the 146 numbered articles of the West German Constitution (Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany), signed ('Adenauer') by Konrad Adenauer in bold fountain pen ink with his name alone at the conclusion.(iv) a folio presentation album containing thirty original unsigned photographs (most approximately 9 x 7, a few smaller) documenting the work of the Parliamentary Council in preparing and approving the West German Constitution at Bonn in 1949, the images depicting the members of the committee working together at tables in a large hall, various members of the press seated at tables, a press conference, four female parliamentary councillors engaged in discussion, various committee members working in their offices, a secretary working at a telex machine, committee members taking a lunch break, relaxing over a game of cards, committee members casting their votes in a secret ballot, the counting of the votes, and the announcement of the result by Konrad Adenauer, and the closing session showing Adenauer delivering his proclamation of the constitution on 23rd May 1949. The majority of the photographs are by Hehmke-Winterer of Dusseldorf and bear their blind embossed credit stamp, and the majority of the pages have brief printed German captions and tissue guards. One of the final pages, featuring a photograph of Adenauer standing at a lectern, is signed ('Adenauer') by the soon-to-be elected Chancellor in the margin, and on the facing page appears a printed 8vo menu card for a dinner at the La Redoute restaurant in Bad Godesberg, Bonn, on 24th May 1949, signed by four individuals including Adenauer, and dated 24th May 1949 in his hand. The menu has been affixed to the page with clear sellotape across each of the signatures. A printed oblong 12mo label is pasted to the inside cover indicating that the album was presented by the State Government of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in May 1949, and bears two unidentified signatures.(v) an original mimeograph typed copy of Adenauer's speech given on the occasion of the proclamation of the West German constitution in Bonn on 23rd May 1949, six pages, 4to, in German, commencing 'Ladies and Gentlemen! I ask you, in view of the importance of the work that we have just completed, after the minutes of excitement, to look together for a few moments now, so that we can take stock of what has happened and where we are. First of all, I would like you to be able to state, so that the public outside does not get the wrong impression, that of the thirteen representatives of Bavaria in the Parliamentary Council, seven have approved the constitution, i.e. the majority. And I think one can hope that there will also be a majority in the Bavarian state parliament when this Basic Law is presented to the state parliaments in the near future. Ladies and Gentlemen! It's probably true and I don't think any of those who justified their no-vote will deny it - for us Germans this is the first happy day since 1933. …….' (vi) Rudolf Nadolny (1873-1953) Prussian military intelligence officer under German Foreign Office cover who served as the German Ambassador to Turkey 1924-33 and the Soviet Union 1933-34. T.L.S., Nadolny, one page, oblong 8vo, Rhondorf bei Honnef, 13th August 1949, to Mr. [Gerard] Ball, in German. Nadolny writes to make a request of his correspondent, explaining that he had been visited the day before by two Englishmen and two Germans who inspected the whole of his house and surveyed the rooms with, he believes, the intention of confiscating it for use by the English authorities, and asking that he and his wife be allowed to stay in the apartment in consideration of their ages and that they had recently carried out some repairs at considerable expense.(vii) Rudolf Nadolny - a second T.L.S., Nadolny, one page, 4to, Rhondorf bei Honnef, 22nd January 1950, to Gerard Ball, in German. Nadolny states that it is a pity he has not seen his correspondent for so long, but is aware that he has been working deliriously, continuing 'I should like to send a copy of the attached booklet (no longer present) which I offer to you, to the well known Mr. Sandys, Winston Churchill's son-in-law, but do not know his address. Could you tell me how to send it to him? The accompanying book will show how a peace with Germany could look according to the rules of national law. It has been written for the case that all four occupying forces together conclude such a peace. If, however, the Western Allies wanted to include Germany in a West-European combination, I thought that this could only be done on the basis of full equality'.An exceptional and rare grouping of documents, pivotal in the history of Germany in the aftermath of World War II. Some very light coverall age wear, a few minor stains and small tears, generally VG, 7 RESTRICTIONS IMPOSED BY THE SALEROOM MEAN THE COMPLETE DESCRIPTION CAN NOT BE DISPLAYED. PLEASE CONTACT US FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
THATCHER MARGARET: (1925-2013) British Prime Minister 1979-90. A good autograph statement signed, Margaret Thatcher, one page (stiff white card), oblong 4to, n.p., 31st May 1996. In bold blue ink Thatcher has penned a three-line statement, in full, 'Alas, the only sport I know is politics where it is important to play the game'. Signed and dated immediately beneath the statement. Extremely rare in this form. EX
RULES OF THE GAME THE: Signed and inscribed 10 x 8 photograph by both Jean Renoir (Director, who also performed in the role of Octave) and Roland Toutain (Andre Jurieux) individually, the image depicting the two friends in half-length profile poses together in a scene from the French satirical comedy-drama film The Rules of the Game (1939). Signed ('Pour Pierre, Jean Renoir') by Renoir and signed by Toutain with his name alone, both in black fountain pen ink to clear areas of the background. About EX
‘There was something bewildering, yet interesting in the scene which lay before us’CARTER HOWARD: (1874-1939) British archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the intact tomb of Tutankhamun in November 1922. An important typed manuscript, unsigned, with numerous corrections and annotations in Carter's hand, in pencil and ink, ten pages, 4to, n.p., n.d. (1933), being the working manuscript of chapter three ('The Annexe') of Volume III of Carter's work The Tomb of Tutankhamun (1933). The manuscript explains the thrilling moment in which Carter's party enters the crucial section of Tutankhamun's tomb, in part, 'Strange and beautiful objects call for wonder and praise, conjecture and fair words - but are they not all signs of the thought and progress of the Age to which they belong?......In contrast to the comparative order and harmony of the contents of the Innermost Recess, we find in this last chamber - the Annexe - a jumble of every kind of funerary chattel, tumbled any way one upon the other, almost defying description. Bedsteads, chairs, stools, footstools, hassocks, game-boards, baskets of fruits, every kind of alabaster vessel and pottery wine-jars, boxes of funerary figures, toys, shields, bows and arrows, and other missles (sic) all turned topsy-turvy. Caskets thrown over, their contents spilled: in fact, everything in confusion……To exaggerate the confusion that existed would be difficult. It was but an illustration of both drama and tragedy…..Two days of somewhat strenuous work had to be spent in clearing the way to the little doorway…..The southern end of the Antechamber, where the doorway is situated, was occupied by a number of large roof sections of the dismantled sepulchral shrines that had shielded the sarcophagus……The doorway of this Annexe, only 51 inches high, and 37 inches broad, had been blocked up with rough stones and plastered over on the outside. The plaster while still wet had received numerous impressions of five different sepulchral-seals of the king…..The history of this little room may have been unfortunate, but never the less romantic. There was something bewildering, yet interesting in the scene which lay before us. The incongruous medley of material jostled in wanton callousness and mischief concealed, no doubt, a strange story if it could be disclosed. Our powerful electric lamp threw a strong mass of light upon its crowded contents…..The blaze of light illuminated strange objects…..Here a vase and there a tiny figure gazing at one with forlorn expression. There were weapons of various kinds…..a boat of alabaster, a lion, and a figure of a bleating ibex. Here a fan, there a sandal, a fragment of a robe, a glove! - keeping odd company with emblems of the living and of the dead. The scene, in fact, seemed almost as if contrived, with theatrical artifice, to produce a state of bewilderment upon the beholder. When one peers into a chamber arranged and sealed by pious hands of the long past, one is touched filled with an emotion: it seems as if the very nature of the place and objects enforce and hush the spectator into noiseless silent reverence. But here in this chamber, however, where nothing but confusion prevailed, the sobering realization of a prodigious task that lay before one, took the place of that emotion……..Tradition holds that in burial custom each article belonging to tomb equipment has it prescribed place in the tomb. However, experience has shown, that no matter how true the governing conventions may be, seldom have they been strictly carried out……The foregoing are but Such were the general facts and impressions gathered during this final part of our investigations in the tomb……Nothing can ever change the fact that we have undoubtedly found evidence in this tomb of extreme felicity mingled with want of order and eventual dishonour. This hypogeum, though it did not wholy (sic) share the fate of its mightier and kindred mausoleums, it was nevertheless robbed, twice robbed, in Pharaonic times……I am also of the belief that both robberies took place within a few years after the burial. Facts such as the transfer of Akh-en-Aten's mummy, from its original tomb at El Amarna to its rock-cut cell at Thebes, apparently within the period Reign of Tut.ankh.Amen……throw considerable light upon the state of affairs in the royal necropoli at that Age……In any case the evidence afforded by those two burials and by this tomb, prove how the royal tombs suffered even within their own Dynasty. The wonder is how it came about that this burial, with all its riches, escaped the eventual fate of the twenty-seven others in the Valley'. Three of the pages feature relatively lengthy holograph additions to the text and to the verso of the ninth page Carter has drawn two pencil sketches of tomb complexes. An exceptional manuscript. Some light overall age wear and two file holes to the left edge of each page, causing a few small tears and paper loss, none of which affect the text. About VGCarter's drawings of the tomb complex were published in The Tomb of Tutankhamun (KV 62) : Supplementary Notes, (The Burial of Nefertiti? III) by Nicholas Reeves, the British Egyptologist, as part of the Amarna Royal Tombs Project, Valley of the Kings, Occasional Paper No. 5. In the article Reeves provides an explanation of Carter's drawings 'Although at first glance this sketch might appear to record Carter's ruminations on the location of additional chambers within KV 62, a moment's reflection will indicate that this is not the case. The typescript on the reverse of which this drawing was made almost certainly post-dates Carter's failed investigation of the left-hand side of room J's north wall-meaning that, by the time the sketch was made, Carter's hopes of KV 62 being a larger tomb were already in the past……[the] document is a casual attempt to illustrate, for persons unknown, how the Annexe and Treasury within KV 62-pictured in the centre of the sheet-relate to a full-sized royal tomb. The tomb Carter here chose as example, and sketched above KV 62, was WV 22 (Amenhotep III), drawing in neat dotted line the chambers present in that earlier tomb which were missing from the tomb he had found; obviously thrown in as an aside-as reflected in the sloppiness of the line-was Carter's acknowledgement of other chambers running off from the WV 22 burial chamber and of no particular relevance to what he was then attempting to describe.'
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